Obama Health Care and Centenarians

More people than ever are living to celebrate their 100th birthdays.

However, if ObamaCare passes, that's going to change.

Some people will still have chance at making it to 100. Members of Congress won't be bound by the rationed care of the government-run system and the dictates of Scrooge-like doctors such as Ezekiel Emanuel. No, they are exempt.

Read more about the exemption and H.R. 615 here.

WASHINGTON -- It's starting to get crowded in the 100-year-olds' club. Once virtually nonexistent, the world's population of centenarians is projected to reach nearly 6 million by midcentury. That's pushing the median age toward 50 in many developed nations and challenging views of what it means to be old and middle-age.

The number of centenarians already has jumped from an estimated few thousand in 1950 to more than 340,000 worldwide today, with the highest concentrations in the U.S. and Japan, according to the latest Census Bureau figures. Their numbers are projected to grow at more than 20 times the rates of the total population by 2050, making them the fastest growing age segment.

Demographers attribute booming long-livers to decades of medical advances and improved diets, which have reduced heart disease and stroke. Genetics and lifestyle also play a factor. So, too, do doctors who are more willing to aggressively treat the health problems of people once considered too old for such care.


...In the U.S., centenarians are expected to increase from 75,000 to more than 600,000 by midcentury. Those primarily are baby boomers hitting the 100-year mark. Their population growth could add to rising government costs for the strained Medicare and Social Security programs.

"The implications are more than considerable, and it depends on whether you're healthy or sick," said Dr. Robert N. Butler, president and chief executive of the International Longevity Center, a New York-based nonprofit group specializing in aging. "Healthy centenarians are not a problem, and many are. But if you have a demented, frail centenarian, they can be very expensive."

Butler predicted a surge in demand in the U.S. for nursing homes, assisted living centers and other special housing, given the wave of aging boomers who will be at increased risk for Alzheimer's disease. He said federal and state governments may have to reevaluate retirement benefits, age limits on driving and Medicare coverage as they struggle to redefine what it means to be old.

"We don't have a major coordinating figure such as a White House counselor to reach across all departments, and we need one," Butler said.

Obama will "take care" of this growing segment of the population.

His health care plan won't allow many individuals to become centenarians.

Doctors who are currently aggressively treating the health problems of people once considered too old for such care won't be able to give them life-prolonging treatments.

Instead of receiving such care, Obama proposes "painkillers," so the elderly can die without too much suffering. He doesn't want to provide them with care that lets them lead longer and better lives.

If Obama's plan passes we won't have to worry about what to do with this booming segment of the population.

Obama and the Democrats will see to it that fewer and fewer people make it to 100.

During the infamous Obama health care infomercial on ABC, Obama's response to a question posed by Jane Sturm regarding her elderly mother brought such clarity to the debate. It exposed the frightening truth.

Using her mother as an example, Sturm wondered about prolonging life and asked Obama if any consideration will be given for a "certain spirit, a certain joy of living," or if it will just be a matter of a "medical cut-off at a certain age."

I don't think Obama realized how terribly callous his answer was, how utterly cold and distant and dehumanizing.

OBAMA: We're not going to solve every difficult problem in terms of end-of-life care. A lot of that is going to have to be we as a culture and as a society starting to make better decisions within our own families and for ourselves.

But what we can do is make sure that at least some of the waste that exists in the system, that's not making anybody's mom better, that is loading up on additional tests or additional drugs, that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care, that at least we can let doctors know, and your mom know, that you know what, maybe this isn't going to help. Maybe you're better off not having the surgery but taking the painkiller.

Translation: Just die and "decrease the surplus population." You can have a painkiller but not surgery.

Obama is a medical Scrooge.

The headline of the AP article cited above is "Starting to get crowded in 100-year-olds' club."

Obama's going to take care of that crowding. His heartless system of rationing will thin the herd.

Obama denies that, and he's sure to deny it during his prime time news conference on Wednesday, July 22.

He will lie to the American people about what his health care plan entails.

He'll lie about health care just as he lied about taxes. He'll lie. It's what he does. No question about it.

Obama has broken so many promises already. I hope that Americans realize that he's destroying health care options and destroying lives.